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Agency as if the pictures did not speak enough for themselves. the state news agency takes great pains to describe the funeral, and they particularly hit on the bitter grief and sorrow that kim jong-un is experiencing. they say that he placed his hands on the cold body of his comrade. they also heap more praise on the aide. he was also called a loyal warrior of kim jong-uns predecessors. he was killed in a car crash the north koreans say, but they havent given more details, and thats caused skep...

Trail. >> to all of you stand up and be a big man and explain what youre talking about. >> the police commissioner responding to allegations of the predecesso predecessors. bill bratten here with more in his response to raid kelly. youre watching morning joe. well be right back. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends, three jobs... youre like nothing can replace brad. then liberty mutual calls, and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up fo...

By kim jong-il. weve seen the same pattern developing under kim jong un. i think this will be very interesting. and it will be very interesting to see if this accident indeed happened on his way to a party or to his way from an end of the year party. >> tloor some doubting whether he ocould have been killed in a car accident, but theres no way of offering or finding any proof to determine what exactly did happen to him. again, this comes down to the state news reports which have said that he die...

Massive civil disobedience and shake up the war makers. >> mcnamara had been managing the war since 1961. the man was just overwhelmed with guilt. >> in less than 60 days, i will have served seven years as secretary of defense. no one of my predecessors has served so long. i myself did not plan. to. >> robert mcnamara leaves office. i think its fair to say that he is by that point tortured on a personal level by the war. >> tonight the communists hit the very heart of saigon, the brand-new u.s. ...

>> thank you very much. love the background. love your shirt. not jealous at all. >> thank you. all right, former secretary of defense chuck hagel accusing the white house of trying to destroy him. he was the third pentagon chief to the obama administration. he stepped down last year. in a new interview, he criticized the presidents decision to ignore his own red line on syria military action back in 2013, saying it actually hurt u.s. credibility all around the world. the article goes on to wr...

Acknowledged his low key approach and led americans to believe he wasnt doing enough. lets bring in new york times colu colu columnist. what do you make of the presidents actual strategy verses the optics? >> i would start at 30,000 feet. i think the strategic dilemma this president has in contest to his predecessors is they all had to manage strength. american strength and the strength of our allies in europe and japan and adversaries in russia and china. he said to manage weakness. american we...

Year news conference. compared to other presidents, president obama has issued relatively few pardons. although hes ahead of his predecessors in commuting peoples sentences. given his recent focus on criminal justice reform theres an open question as to whether or not there might be a owhole lot more pardons and commutations coming from president obama before he leaves office. so as we get toward the end of the year everybodys watching for that and we could potentially hear something on that fro...

News conference is a little different from your average presidential presser because president obama for one tends to take questions for a longer time than usual. he also tends to get questions from reporters that are on the kind of big picture reflect on this past year, reflect on your presidency, gets kind of those kinds of questions from reporters. sometimes the year-end press conference is notable for other reasons, though. you might remember last year at his end of the year press conference...

This past year, reflect on your presidency, gets kind of those kinds of questions from reporters. sometimes the year-end press conference is notable for other reasons, though. you might remember last year at his end of the year press conference the president made a point of only calling on female reporters. he took eight questions last year, all of them from women. so thats one thing to have on your radar. president obamas year-end presser. tomorrow afternoon. its scheduled for just before 2:00 ...

Thats not going to work. that wasnt going to work in an agreement that was going to apply to everybody. so now we have for the first time, as you say, an agreement that involves targets being put forward by everybody, 186 countries have already put forward their targets. absolutely an extraordinary number that nobody would have predicted a year ago. >> what are the consequences if the next american president decides to renounce this, essentially america were to elect someone who says either clim...